½ Dollar (American Legion 100th Anniversary) obverse½ Dollar (American Legion 100th Anniversary) reverse
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½ Dollar (American Legion 100th Anniversary)

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The American Legion 100th Anniversary Half Dollar

In 2019 the U.S. Mint struck a half dollar for an organization that began the way many great American things do — improbably, far from home. The American Legion was dreamed up by World War I soldiers in Paris in 1919. A century later, two children on a coin recite the Pledge of Allegiance to honor them.

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